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The Sony Gallery's contribution to a joint exhibition organized by the AUC Rare Books and Special Collections Library in honor of Hassan Fathy was to exhibit photographs of Hassan Bey's buildings in Bariz and Sidi Kreir, taken by one of the most dedicated scholars of Islamic architecture and former AUC professor Dr. Christel Kessler. These photographs had never before been exhibited.

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In November, the Kosova crisis was brought to stark life through the photos of Spanish photographer Enric Marti, who covered the war in Bosnia for the European Press Agency, Agence France Presse, and the Associated Press. It was a difficult job, and not only because of the horrors of war that surrounded him: "Newspapers are fed up with refugees. Each photo had to be stronger than the previous one or else they didn't work. What does that say about what we do?"

"Shapes and Patterns in Landscape and Architecture," by Thomas Schuller-Gotzburg, explored the diversity of patterns that surround us, both in nature and in human constructions. "Some shapes are known, others are seen only after contemplation," the photographer said. "The camera helps to sharpen the mind for those that otherwise go unnoticed."

Uncovering the hidden sides of human nature was the aim for Hally Pancer in her exhibition "Evidence." Her work over the past 20 years has been, she says, "a continuous investigation of the complexities of the human spirit." This collection was made in Egypt, Israel, India, and Tunisia.

"The desert is not a dead world...it lives," said Eric Blijboom, whose exhibition explored the areas around the oases of Egypt's Western Desert. There is more change in a desert landscape than most people think, he says. "Second by second there is a change caused by the wind and the light of the sun...chalk rocks erode and become surrealistic sculptures in an open-air museum."

The final show of the year was the photographs of Chris Langtvet, who made the prints for the Lehnert and Landrock show. This exhibit focused on six Mamluk-era buildings in Cairo, exploring the interaction between them and their setting in modern Cairo.